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Sovietize, v.|səʊ-, ˈsɒvɪətaɪz|
Also sovietize.
[f. Soviet n. and a. + -ize.]
trans. To convert to a Soviet system of government; to bring into conformity with soviet, communist or Marxist principles; to subject to the influence or control of the Soviet Union.
1920Glasgow Herald 18 Aug. 7 Lenin's attempt to Sovietise the..countries possessed by the Cossacks of the Don, Terek, and Kuban. 1922Ibid. 29 July 8 Not long since the Bolshevists succeeded in Sovietising Bokhara. 1928Daily Express 1 Nov. 9 The izvoschiks (cabdrivers) of Moscow are to be organised, their hours of work regulated, and..their cabs equipped with meters. The task of ‘Sovietising’ the izvoschik will not be an easy one. 1936Sun (Baltimore) 15 Sept. 13/8 Owners of Lille textile mills, fearful lest their factories ‘be Sovietized’, tonight defied Government efforts to grant a forty-hour week to labor. Owners of the mills..demanded the right to prevent ‘establishment of Soviets’ in their plants. 1954A. Koestler Invisible Writing 138 Bokhara the noble was being sovietised more ruthlessly than any other Asiatic town. 1968J. M. White Nightclimber xvi. 108 [He] assisted Panchevski, the Defence Minister, to Sovietize the army. 1980English World-Wide I. i. 20 Yiddish spelling was proletarianized, declericalized, and ‘Sovietized’ in the U.S.S.R.
Hence ˌSovietiˈzation. Also, more rarely, ˈSovietizer; ˈSovietized ppl. a., ˈSovietizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1920Glasgow Herald 12 Aug. 7 A Sovietised Poland subject to the Moscow Government. 1921Ibid. 17 Jan. 11 It remains to be seen how the Persian Court will take to the idea of Sovietisation. 1922Ibid. 29 July 8 The Amir..cannot but view the Sovietising of this region with great disfavour. 1925Ibid. 26 Mar. 8 The principal virtue of wireless is its sovietising power. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 29 May 13/2 An effort by the medical profession to brand socialized medicine, ‘Sovietized medicine’ has failed. 1939War Illustr. 9 Dec. 392/3 In Russian Poland conditions were on the whole rather better... The process of Sovietization was carried out gradually. 1948J. Towster Political Power in U.S.S.R. i. iv. 70 The People's Commissariat for the Affairs of the Nationalities..operated as watchdog, organizer, sovietizer, and protector of the nationalities. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. vi. 70 At Talgar we boarded a lorry full of highly Sovietized Kazakh girl students. 1955Times 16 Aug. 9/7 As constituent units of the U.S.S.R., the process of sovietization has been applied to the Baltic States without mercy. 1968V. V. Aspaturian in A. Kassof Prospects for Soviet Society vii. 159 Sovietization is here defined as the process of modernization and industrialization within the Marxist-Leninist norms of social, economic, and political behavior. 1974V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins iii. i. 132 The President of Quirn..timorously sympathized with the fashionable Sovietizers. 1982Daily Tel. 30 July 12 If the Western alliance splits and the Russians establish military supremacy in Europe,..we should fear..‘Sovietisation’. |